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Washington, District of Columbia - 1 schools
An equity score of 59/100 ranks Idea Pcs #7 of 51 districts in District of Columbia (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $32,269 per pupil, Idea Pcs ranks #17 of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending (District of Columbia districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$32,269
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Idea Pcs operates 1 public schools serving 307 students, placing it among the smallest districts in District of Columbia. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in District of Columbia.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,269 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending. See how District of Columbia compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.0% local, and 22.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 59/100, ranked #7 of 51 in District of Columbia against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 87.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 57.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.3% African American, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Idea Pcs, enrolling 350 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Idea Pcs accounts for 100.0% of all Idea Pcs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Idea Pcs a distant remainder — means Idea Pcs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Idea Pcs student-counselor ratio is 88:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Idea Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 57.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.